Religion: Consecrated Finance

Philanthropy, no longer merely
an expansion of good Samaritanism, now resembles an exact science.
The famed Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations apply the precision of
the laboratory to the study of human welfare and what money can do to
promote it.

Last week the general council of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
approved plans for a Presbyterian Foundation, similar to the
Rockefeller and Carnegie institutions, which will enable beneficent
Presbyterians to entrust their money to a corps of philanthropic
experts. If the plan is approved by the Presbyterian General
Assembly, meeting...